Blind faith is intellect’s most deadly foe. Intellect that would surrender to faith has forfeited its very nature. True faith is intellect’s most vital partner. To travel beyond its boundaries, intellect must find a vision that transcends itself. That is the meaning of true faith: A perspective that surpasses the field of intellect’s vision, a sense that there is something not only unknown, but unknowable; something before which all our knowledge is an infinitesimal point of nothingness. And so, the mind that fears faith will choose a truth with which it is most comfortable, while the mind that has...